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Future Congresswoman Darializa Avila Chevalier is brutally assaulted by the NYPD while protesting an ICE shooting. Without hesitation, she gets right back up to defend her community. Most politicians would never.

In 2016, there were two competing ballot propositions about the death penalty in California. Prop 62, which would have ended the death penalty, failed. Prop 66, which claimed it would speed up the process, passed. In that same election, 61% of California voters went for Clinton over Trump.

McDonald's is facing a federal lawsuit that alleges its AI-enhanced pricing tool violates antitrust laws because it shares nonpublic data with competing franchisees.

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Even if you haven't abused someone, if you are going to the mat to defending confirmed rapists, then what is the actual difference at this point?

My guess - exactly what’s happening in Chicago. Most of what ICE is doing flies under the radar because they stopped doing the shock and awe crap. People can’t respond to something that don’t know is happening.

Happy Juneteenth

Chicago's priorities are fucked. Half the Southside is without power so folks are parked in weird places. So the city is out in force making sure they get that sweet ticket money. Who cares that the streets are impassable bc of downed trees.

Chicago's priorities are fucked. Half the Southside is without power so folks are parked in weird places. So the city is out in force making sure they get that sweet ticket money. Who cares that the streets are impassable bc of downed trees.

Life changing #booksky

Yeah, fuck that. I feel old. We might have survived dial-up, but a lot of things, including tanning beds, killed us. Anxiety wears me down, it doesn’t fuel me. ‘Get ‘gangsta’? You sound like a racist white lady.

The thing about AI, is that if it’s done properly, it requires a background in writing and an understanding of systems. So, at some point, I think it’s likely that we see an uptick in the need to hire people who know how to use words.

I also don't think we can ask for common people to run & then immediately ignore them for the crime of being thoughtful but poor. And literally the only way to fix that is to make it commonplace to donate to smaller campaigns so they can become larger.

Well hell.

Languages are so much fun. This is a hilarious thread even when you have absolutely no idea what’s actually being said.

Radical Bookstore/Makerspace on the south side.

It’s an atmosphere, not a topic.

Yeah, Daily Beast Editor is having a panic attack in the form of words on a page. He’s desperately grasping for a sense of certainty - the way people do after traumatic events. The problem is that he has a huge platform and he’s wrong.

Here is Rev. Black's church in the Woodlawn neighborhood of Chicago

this week's post is about the coming privacy apocalypse. age verification, 3d printing snitchware, telematic insurance, and of course palantir posting a fascist manifesto margaretkilljoy.substack.com/p/the-coming...

Maybe not quite in the spirit because it is from a game not a novel, but I keep coming back to this lately and I think yeah I got that right.

Extreme heat kills over 500 New Yorkers each summer, when crowded, shadeless neighborhoods become furnaces and pressure-cookers. No borough is more vulnerable to heat-related deaths than the Bronx.

I’ve been hearing so much anger and disappointment from frontline workers about the BBC investigation into fraudulent asylum claims. One of the most damning responses has come from one of the experts they interviewed, solicitor Ana Gonzalez. It’s really worth reading her response in full:

Joy is good.

If you’re like, “Wait, everyone is shackled on ICE flights?! Wait, there are 50 ICE flights a day?! Wait, they’re sending people to countries they’ve never been to?!” I am begging you to please read my ICE Air FAQ. 🙏 gillianbrockell.com/what-is-ice-...

We can conservatively fit 400,000 more people in Chicago. By building more affordable homes throughout the city and expanding access to more sustainable forms of transportation, we can make this a reality.

It's time to repopulate Chicago with a million southern refugees

Moving to the right isn’t going to get us past this moment. Bold progressive populism will.

Omg I need this morning situation IG: windhorse_ranch

“Elihu David Stone, Yehuda HaKohen, Abigail Bornstein, Aharon Dikel, and Alexander Malbin Duncan —were identified through a review of Megamot Shalom’s business filings with the Israeli government from 2016 to 2024, where they were listed as the nonprofit’s highest-paid employees.”

PDXICE News: 2026 Most people are getting their charges at ICE dropped that happened in 2020 and 2021 as well. I was one of the only ones who faced federal trial for protesting at ICE in 2020. 2026 I am facing federal trial June 23, 2026 for: * speaking from the sidewalk

Transphobia has no place in the DFL Party. Actions taken by the DFL Code of Conduct Committee undermines 2SLGBTQIA+ participation in the party and seeks to punish those who speak out. This is unacceptable. Read the MPLS DFL Chair and Vice Chair statement: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Well I guess I would like to know what cowardly motherfucker left this note under our “you need a warrant” sign.

This is an incredible tweet.

History in a box.

I don’t know why I wasn’t expecting dragons. But I wasn’t.

The remaining 4 defendants in the "Broadview Six" federal conspiracy case, stemming from a September protest outside the Broadview, IL ICE facility, have filed their own motions to bar certain evidence and opinions at trial. The defendants spread their motions over 3 separate filings last night.

ICE in Chicago this morning at Elston and Kennicott—a masked agent tells a witness (on the sidewalk) not to get in front of his car. Feds are continuing kidnappings across the city & burbs after increased activity this month. No flashy CBP caravans, just a steady stream of covert ICE arrests.